觀無量壽佛經疏 4.5

4.5

Fourteenth, regarding the general discrimination before the text on cultivating goodness of the upper grade of contemplation, there are eleven gates: first, explaining the address and instruction in general; second, determining its stage; third, citing those with karmic affinity in general; fourth, determining the three minds as the primary cause; fifth, directly explaining selecting capacities as capable or incapable; sixth, directly explaining differences in receiving teachings; seventh, directly explaining differences in the length and brevity of the periods of cultivating practice; eighth, explaining dedicating the practices cultivated to vow to be reborn in Amitābha’s Buddha-land; ninth, explaining differences in the sages coming to welcome at the end of life, and the slowness or swiftness of departure; tenth, explaining differences in the slowness or swiftness of the lotus opening upon arriving there; eleventh, explaining differences in the benefits attained after the lotus opens.